Monday, 8 May 2017

There were
these selfsame metal clouds sailing over the atrium in all 70 states I
visited when I was going nuts running around in circles like an unemployed crane in
the sky in 2560

I
kept being bugged by this crazy desire that there be mercy to the
innocent I tried to drink it away but I forgot how and who it was that
was innocent anyway

I tried to put one in the air but I'm stuck on the ground I tried to
dance it away but I'm unemployed and totally crippled and only moving around in circles anymore in virtual reality where one inevitably suffers from the discrepancy between dream and reality

I
tried to change it with my hair but I have no hair Well it's like
cranes in the sky when cranes in the sky are unemployed and have no hair and are stuck on
the ground in virtual reality waiting to see what dawn brings

When
cranes in the sky are unemployed and crippled and stuck on the ground in virtual reality thinking moving
around might make them feel better but it just makes them even more abject and as
the night at last draws to a close

I
travel through all 70 states and find no mercy for the innocent
anywhere and it's 2560 I'm starting to feel dizzy and those metal clouds would be
hurting my wings if I had wings

Bomb defuser Wissam Daoud treads carefully through
salvaged Islamic State explosives at an abandoned house in Mosul:: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017Major Hussam Hashash reassures Wissam Daoud, a bomb technician with the Iraqi
Ministry of Interior’s Emergency Response Division, after the two
came under attack by Islamic State militants just beyond the front line
in what they call the “forbidden zone” in Mosul: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017

Major Hussam Hashash reassures Wissam Daoud, a bomb technician with the Iraqi
Ministry of Interior’s Emergency Response Division, after the two
came under attack by Islamic State militants just beyond the front line
in what they call the “forbidden zone” in Mosul: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017

Parts of West Mosul sit in ruins as the fight against Islamic
State continues: photo by Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017Parts of West Mosul sit in ruins as the fight against Islamic
State continues: photo by Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017Amid heavy fighting on the front lines in West
Mosul, Wissam Daoud takes cover and talks to fellow soldiers: photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017

After reuniting with his wounded commander, bomb diffuser Wissam Daoud
sobs in the hallways of his makeshift base near the front lines, an
abandoned house that once belonged to Islamic State supporters: photo by Marcus
Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017

After reuniting with his wounded commander, bomb diffuser Wissam Daoud
sobs in the hallways of his makeshift base near the front lines, an
abandoned house that once belonged to Islamic State supporters: photo by Marcus
Yam / Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2017

A little girl was killed and 9 others injured after shelling that targeted an IDP camp in the
Jisr al-Shughour area, by a UAV.
SCD responded: image via majd khalaf @majdkhalaf1993, 3 May 2017

A picture of the forced displacement massacre in the middle of the mosque (literally) the Ramousa neighborhood. #Syria #Exodus: image via Eliane Althoff @_ElianeBarros, 6 May 2017

That's
what happened in #Aleppo 1 camp in Darkoush in #Idlib countryside after
a bomb was thrown by a drone at the camp, yesterday: image via Eliane Althoff @_ElianeBarros, 4 May 2017

Many
of the martyrs and wounded, fear and horror of the children after an
air raid on the buildings in the city of Saqba, Eastern #Ghouta: image via Eliane Althoff @_ElianeBarros, 1 May 2017